Let me be clear: Heroes VI is an absolute nightmare if you have a spotty internet connection. 'The real killjoy – and potential deal breaker – is the horrendous UPlay system's draconian requirement that you be connected to the internet at all times to play.'The real killjoy – and potential deal breaker – is the horrendous UPlay system's draconian requirement that you be connected to the internet at all times to play. If anything, Heroes VI's steep difficulty is as unforgiving as it always has been, requiring careful thought and planning with each move to avoid being outpaced and annihilated by your foes. While the sudden push towards greater accessibility isn't geared towards HoMM veterans who revel in the series complexities, it doesn't diminish the level of challenge or strategy of the experience. There's even an awesome option to convert captured enemy settlements to your own faction type. A new zone of control system makes defending your realm a little less stressful, since enemies have to take over your central town in a region if they want to permanently steal your resource-producing mines. Resources, for example, have been pared down to four key elements: gold, wood, ore, and blue crystals instead of the usual seven. Other refinements in Heroes VI are geared towards streamlining the flow of exploration and expansion to make it more manageable. These changes give you a much greater level of control over how you develop your main characters, and they're a welcome improvement. Outside of combat, there's also a new alignment-based reputation system that affects heroes' abilities, and the skill tree system has been entirely re-worked for the better. On the battlefield, heroes now act strictly as support units that can fling spells or attack once per round from the sidelines. But Black Hole Entertainment also made some notable adjustments to the way the game's heroic protagonists work. You'll find all of that in Heroes VI, including a sweet new faction of Far Eastern-inspired serpent people called the Sanctuary that prominently features aquatic and amphibious creatures. 'These changes give you a much greater level of control over how you develop your main characters.'Each fresh installment in the franchise brings with it the usual array of new faction-oriented campaigns, re-tooled units, slick graphical updates, and other subtle iterative tweaks.

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